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I am cutting up dreadfully all the new species, etc., 

 made by all recent workers, myself included in the list, 

 but this work could never have been done so completely 

 except by personal examination. Uncle Alex and all 

 send much love. Mathilde [his cousin] is to be married 

 next month ; if I am anywhere near I shall come to see 

 the family again. 



At Kiel, Agassiz and his wife spent three delightful 

 days with Dr. Meyer, the zoologist, who had a beautiful 

 place surrounded by magnificent beech trees, in the most 

 picturesque spot of the harbor, a short distance out of 

 town looking down on Kiel Bay. From here he went to 

 Copenhagen and Stockholm, where he spent most of his 

 time examining collections of Echini. 



On their way back to Switzerland they stopped for 

 the day at Freiburg, of which incident Agassiz writes : 

 "I took Annie to all the old haunts in the town, showed 

 her where we lived, took her behind the town on the 

 Schlossberg to see the view, and we also made an ex' 

 cursion to the Hollenthal, so that she got a very good 

 idea of the Black Forest; we had magnificent weather 

 for it. Little did I think when I left Freiburg twenty- 

 two years ago, jumping on my violin as a farewell 

 salute, that I should return next time as I have, a com- 

 parative nabob, if the mines hold out till I can pay my 

 debts." 



Leaving Mrs. Agassiz, who had become somewhat 

 tired with rapid traveling, at Lausanne, Agassiz con- 

 tinued his scientific pilgrimage alone, only to be shortly 

 turned back by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian 

 War. 



